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Windows Azure Tools: Getting the right Run/Debug and Publish Functionality

If you're using the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio and you are finding that when...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/05/2008

How to Diagnose and Fix Windows Azure Development Storage Service Issues

On this thread in the forum Frank Siegemund posted some great guidelines on how to diagnose and...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/01/2008

F# Windows Azure Templates

Recently I posted about the Windows Live Tools Web Role Template that integrates with the Windows...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/01/2008

Windows Live Web Role for Windows Azure

In my prior post that talked about the difference between the Cloud Service templates and the Role...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/31/2008

PDC Hands on Labs

The Azure Services Training Kit - PDC Preview which contains the Hands on Labs that folks are doing...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/29/2008

Windows Azure Walkthrough: Blob Storage Sample

Please see the updated post for November 2009 and later. This walkthrough covers what I found to be...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/29/2008

ASP.Net MVC Projects running on Windows Azure

[For more recent information on using ASP.NET MVC with Windows Azure please see this post.] Before...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/28/2008

Try Windows Azure Now

Want to try Windows Azure right now? Install the following: Windows Azure SDK Windows Azure Tools...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/28/2008

Video Walkthrough: A Quick Lap around Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio

Watch my screencast that introduces you to the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio....

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/28/2008

Windows Azure Walkthrough: Table Storage

Please see the updated post for November 2009 and later. This walkthrough covers what I found to be...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/28/2008

Submitting a Bug against the Windows Azure Tools and SDK

If you have questions you want to have answered, or want to participate in community discussions,...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/28/2008

MSDN Articles on Windows Azure Tools

I've posted a number of technical articles on MSDN that will help you to get acquainted with the...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/27/2008

Cloud Service Project Templates vs Role Project Templates

If you create a new Cloud Service project in Visual Studio but it doesn't contain a Cloud Service...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/27/2008

Using the Windows Azure SDK Samples in Visual Studio

The Windows Azure SDK contains a set of samples that will help you get started with and to learn...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/27/2008

Now: Cloud Computing

As some of you may have noticed, this blog has gone dark for a while. During that time it got an...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/27/2008

VSX Dev Con 2008 - Learn to Extend Visual Studio

Are you looking to extend Visual Studio? (or do you already and want more help? more Microsoft...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/07/2008

Thank you for your feedback on Silverlight Control Licensing

Recently a posted a set of questions around Silverlight Control licensing. I was really happy with...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 05/07/2008

Silverlight Licensing for 3rd Party Controls

For any of you building 3rd party controls for Silverlight - I really need your feedback! We are...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 04/30/2008

XAML Object Mapping and WPF XAML Vocabulary Specifications

XAML specification published, added to Microsoft's open promise Specs that are shared include the...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/28/2008

How to: Sub-property editing in the Visual Studio 2008 WPF Designer Property Browser

Recently I saw a post on the forums asking about how to get subproperties to show up in the Property...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/03/2008

Cider (WPF and Silverlight Designer and Tools Team) is Hiring!

Want to work on the designer and tools for WPF and Silverlight? Here's your opportunity, and it's an...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/27/2008

Professional Developer and Designer tools for students at no charge

Check it out: https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/ DreamSpark is simple, it's all about giving...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/27/2008

Divelements SandRibbon for WPF

Following up on the great design time experience that they developed for their SandDock for WPF,...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/21/2008

The WPF Designer for Windows Forms Developers

One of the things we've been working on as a team is a guide to help Windows Forms developers ramp...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/06/2008

Actipro WPF Studio - Updated with Improved Design Time Support

On 1/29/2008, Actipro released a new build of their WPF Studio. You'll recall that I blogged about...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/30/2008

Mincom Case Study

Here is a case study of one of the companies we've been working with, Mincom....

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/28/2008

Showing Attached Properties in the Cider WPF Designer

If you create a type that defines an attached property, you will notice that this attached property...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/17/2008

DevComponents DotNetBar Suite for WPF

DevComponents recently released their DotNetBar Suite for WPF and it is loaded with design time...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/09/2008

Workaround for Style.Triggers Design Time Issue

I've received two bug reports from Control Vendors regarding Style.Triggers not working correctly at...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/04/2008

Pistachio - “WPF Resource Visualizer”

There are definitely some cool 3rd party WPF tools coming out as of late -- for example, Mole. Here...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/04/2008

Actipro Ribbon - Office 2007 UI

Another great example of cool design time functionality in Cider (WPF Designer in Visual Studio...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/28/2007

SandDock for WPF by Divelements

Now that Visual Studio 2008 has been released, one of the real fruits of my job is to see how our...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/28/2007

Giving Focus to Adorners

If you add a TextBox as an adorner to your design time, by default you will not be able to give that...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/27/2007

Specifying a Toolbox Icon for a Control in the WPF Designer

Recently I had a customer point out the following from the documentation: Differences in Specifying...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/10/2007

Mole 2.1 - WPF Runtime Inspection Tool

Ran across this today and I thought I would pass it along as it is a very useful tool for WPF...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/07/2007

How to get the best out of the WPF designer when laying out your WPF app

Mark Wilson-Thomas is our resident WPF Layout expert and is leveraging my blog to get some great...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/04/2007

Visual Studio 2008 RTM Crashing when Creating a WPF Project?

We've been seeing some issues where VS 2008 crashes when creating a new WPF project. The underlying...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/04/2007

Visual Studio 2008 has shipped!

This is a pretty exciting day as Visual Studio 2008 has shipped. This is the first product I've...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/19/2007

Don't do that in the WPF Designer (Cider)!

One of the challenges of building a designer after the framework has shipped (as is the case with...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/08/2007

Bug in Finding Metadata Assemblies

As it turns out, we have a bug in finding metadata assemblies that will be in Visual Studio 2008...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/24/2007

How to get my XAML to show up in the WPF Designer: IMultiValueConverter

Recently I made a post about how to deal with Application.Current at design time. I thought I'd...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/11/2007

Problems with Nested ItemsControls

As we approach the end of the Orcas project schedule (Visual Studio 2008) I've been doing some app...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/09/2007

Change in Behavior of AdornerProvider Activate and Deactivate Methods

We made a change post Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) Beta 2 in the way the AdornerProvider.Activate()...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/04/2007

.Net Framework Library Source Code

Scott Guthrie, a GM in the division I work in (Developer Division) has just made a great post about...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/03/2007

Have you seen the Toolbox Controls Installer?

A really cool new feature for Visual Studio 2008 is the Toolbox Controls Installer which as the name...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 09/26/2007

Dealing with Application.Current in Design Mode

There are a ton of WPF samples on MSDN which are really useful if you are developing in or learning...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 09/24/2007

Using a Design Time Adorner to Setup Bindings Between Controls

[One warning -- the code to set the binding via the Editing Object Model will not work in VS 2008...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 09/20/2007

Design Time Adorners

I've posted about design time adorners a few times in the past however there have been some API...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 09/19/2007

Cider Extensibility Help Documentation

One of our User Education writers who takes care of much of the Cider Extensibility documentation...

Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/24/2007

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